Abstract: Ocean mixing processes have traditionally been formulated using one-point turbulence closure models, specifically the Mellor and Yamada (MY) models, which were pioneered in geophysics using 1980 state-of-the-art turbulence ...

Abstract: A Reynolds stress?based model is used to derive algebraic expressions for the vertical diffusivities Kα(α = m, h, s) for momentum, heat, and salt. The diffusivities are expressed as Kα(R?, N, RiT, ?)in terms of the density ...

Abstract: AbstractRecently, we presented a parameterization of an arbitrary tracer 3D mesoscale flux that describes both diabatic and adiabatic regimes without using arbitrary tapering functions. However, we did not parameterize the ...

Abstract: AbstractIn 2011, Chelton et al. carried out a comprehensive census of mesoscales using altimetry data and reached the following conclusions: ?essentially all of the observed mesoscale features are nonlinear? and ?mesoscales ...